Guard for rocking-chairs or analogous articles of furniture



(No Model.)

' A. P. BAUMANN. GUARD FOR ROCKING CHAIRS OB ANALOGOUS ARTICLES OP FURNITURE.

No. 409,444. Patented Aug. 20, 1889..

UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED F. BAUMANN, OF VATERTO'WN, WISCONSIN.

GUARD FOR ROCKING-CHAIRS 0R ANALOGOUS ARTICLES 0F FURNITURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 409,444, dated August 20, 1889.

Serial No. 311,948. (No model.)

Z 0 aZZ whom it may concern:

3e it known that I, ALFRED F. BAUMANN, of \Vatertown, in the county of Jefferson, and in the State of Visconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Guards for Rocking-Chairs or Analogous Articles of Furniture; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and .exact description thereof.

My invention relates to guards for rockingchairs or analogous articles of furniture; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction, as will be fully set forth hereinaftor and subsequently claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a rocking-chair provided with my improved deviccs. Fig. 2 is a plan view of one of the rockers, partly broken away, showing my improved guard applied thereto; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the said guard.

A represents one of the rockers of a rocking-chair, the rear end of said rocker being preferably shaped as shown at a, Fig. 1, there being no necessity (when my device is used) for cutting an end circle, as is ordinarily done, to prevent tipping. The said end of the rocker is further provided with a vertical central slot 1), designed to receive the shank B of my improved guard, which latter is made of rubber, and shown in detailin Fig. 3, being all in one piece, preferably, there being a transverse buffer C of generally oblong rounded shape at the extreme end of the shank B, provided with transverse V-shaped grooves c c at each side of the said end of the shank 1-3, to receive the extreme ends of the part a of the rocker on each side of said shank,and therebystren gthen and stiffen the buffer 0. Holes (Z d are made transversely through the shank Band through the end of the rocker in register therewith, and the device is secured by means of suitable pins, bolts, rivets, or screws D I) passed through said holes.

The topc of the back of the rocking-chair may be bored out at suitable intervals for the reception of rubber plugs E, driven therein and suitably secured.

The operation and advantages of my improved guards will be obvious from the foregoing description of their construction and attachment. They not only serve to prevent contact between the chair or its rockers with any part of the wall of a room, but the rocker-guardsprevent the chair from tipping and also protect the carpets of the room, and save the expense of shaping a circle on the said ends of the rockers.

My device may be applied to rockers of any shape or style, not only to those of rocking-chairs, but equally as well to the rockers of cribs, cradles, and the like.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with a furniture-rocker having a vertically-slotted end, a guard consisting of a shank fitting in and secured to said slotted end, and a transverse elastic buffer secured to or formed with said shank, and having transverse grooves on each side of said shank for the reception of the extreme tips of the rocker end, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing 1 have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of \Viseonsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

ALFRED F. BAUMANN.

Witnesses:

H. G. UNDFRwooD, .WILLIAM KLUG. 

